Improve your vocabulary! There is more to time vocabulary than “when”, “while”, “after”, and “before”. In fact, there are words you can use to express more detail than just a moment in time. For example, when you say nowadays, it gives the listener a sense of change from past to present. In this lesson, I will teach you many useful time words and phrases, like old-fashioned, lately, of late, outdated, latest, a week from now, and more. These words are commonly used by native English speakers in everyday conversations to express more detail about a time period in the past, present, and future. After watching, your next step will be to do the quiz.

Dear James, Thank You very much indeed for Your lessons and this lesson. But I want to ask a question. “it is no longer that useful” how can it be paraphrased?I have some doubt about original phrase. Thank You very much indeed!

Cool lesson. I wrote two sentences and I am not sure if they are correct.
1. My computer is OUTDATED, so I need to buy another one to write my master’s thesis.
2. OF LATE I have slept too long because I am unemployed.
Sb can help me?

Monday, January 7th 2019

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for writing ?! really? what is your computer? what do you study?
I think “lately” is better for number 2.

Sometimes I like to wear old fashioned clothes and walk and see people expressions.some like it. for example blackboard an chalks are out dated but when I use them, it makes me feel warm I don’t know why.Nowadays everything changes very fast even each year has it’s own style.these days fashion designers don’t care about comfort and healthy that much.I’m gonna use ancient Persian colors this week. Each day has a color and I would go green this Monday and white for Friday and ….., yes life is colorful and shiny with Great teachers specially you James you know that I love you.

Hi! I really like this page, so i’m going to pick a lesson or maybe more than one every day. I’m going to leave my comment if it doesn’t mind :), if you wanna talk to me, it would be fine to me
so here’s my comment
Past:
My laptop 2501 from 2000’s is old fashioned
I thought, it was old fashioned studied english, but it’s not.
My grandma told us about her teenage old fashioned stories.
Taylor swift’s music from 2006 is old fashioned
My last christmas had been old fashiones since we’d watched Home Alone.
I’m so tired of my mom’s old fashioned music
And that’s it, i hope you can help, i would be so grateful to you
bye, greetings :)

i am confused about it too, but looked again the sentence about of late, looks like it is closer to past more then lately. Cause after using of late, we see a lot thing happened in his friends life before saying that.

Hi James. Can you teach us about the gerund following after phrasal verbs. Is it a constant principle that we should use gerund after each phrasal verb. The sentence with 2 verbs f.i.Subject + phrasal verb + verb +ing + object.

Hi! these are my six phrases.
1. I’ve seen some clothes in the mall, they were outdated.
2. there are some books in my college’s library that are obsolete.
3. Nowdays, i am always, a little bit tired.
4. Latest news were so cheerfull
5. this friday, i am going to travel.
6. the day next tomorrow is unknown

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